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Wow, I can't believe they are still going forward with this. Hopefully Canadians continue to speak up on Copyright issues, and make sure unpopular bills remain so for a reason...

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To be frank, with the current government being a majority it doesn't really matter what Canadians do or say. Our prime minister will see to it that whatever he wants to pass will pass.

What we need to do is make sure that he gets replaced next election, and that a lot of the changes he's implemented are removed.

I agree that he has to go, but I disagree that us being active will have little affect. Due directly to complaints, we killed off the first 2 versions of their copyright change bills and their attempt to implement warrant-less wire-tapping.

These things have a bad habit of coming back again (like right now) but voicing your opinion definitely helps to sway the conversation and hopefully send them back to the drawing board...

The last 2 copyright reform bills (that I'm aware of - one circa 2008 and one circa 2012?) were both put forth by minority governments.

True, but they both got significantly revised before coming back in the final form, that passed last year, due to pressure.

That's the point: the pressure was only effective because they were put forth by minority governments. Majority governments have a much freer hand.

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